December 29 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian blue-chip Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) said it posted a net profit of 53.7 million levs ($39.6 million/27.5 million euro) for the first eleven months of 2009.
The lender's interest income totalled 133.9 million levs through November, it said in a statement sent to the Bulgarian Stock Exchange on Monday. It gave no comparative figures.
For the first ten months of the year, the bank has reported 47.6 million levs in net profit and interest income of 121.3 million levs.
Corpbank (www.corpbank.bg), 30%-owned by an Omani-controlled company, was the ninth largest bank by assets in Bulgaria at the end of November. Twenty-four locally-registered banks and the branches of six foreign lenders operate in the country.
Shares of Corpbank closed 1.8% higher at 57.5 levs as just 10 stocks changed hands on Monday, the last trading day for 2009 on the bourse in Sofia. The statement was released after the end of bourse trade.
(1 euro=1.95583 Bulgarian levs)